Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?

you have to make sure the fonts are listed in the manifest as well of course, and it's probably best to keep them in a specific fonts folder, but after that, yes, you just copy them in. make sure all your references (html / css, and manifest) give the precise location (including name of subdirectory : case matters). you can take a look at how they're referenced in one of jellby's epubs (i believe the prince and the pauper has embedded fonts) or my epub of three men and a boat.

That would be fine if Tahoma_KOI8.ttf sits at the same directory as the .opf file. The "id" is only a label you have to give to the file, as you have to do with every other file you include in the ePUB, images included. As far as I know the "id" is only really used in the <spine>, though.

In the .css files, you need the @font-face statement, and in the src property the url must be relative to where the .css sits. Like this:

That would be fine if Tahoma_KOI8.ttf sits at the same directory as the .opf file. The "id" is only a label you have to give to the file, as you have to do with every other file you include in the ePUB, images included. As far as I know the "id" is only really used in the <spine>, though.

In the .css files, you need the @font-face statement, and in the src property the url must be relative to where the .css sits. Like this:

Zelda and Jellby seem to have you squared away on the technical aspects, but I wanted to mention that Tahoma can't legally be included in an epub for redistribution. To the best of my knowledge, only Microsoft can distribute that typeface.

I wanted to mention that Tahoma can't legally be included in an epub for redistribution.

Many font foundaries haven't really come to terms with ebooks yet. I just asked Monotype how much a licence for including a roman and italic of one of their fonts in an ebook would be.

£1500. For a five year licence.

To be fair, this fee covers up to five fonts, and in up to five different ebooks. I suppose if you were publishing lots of popular ebooks, £60/book/year wouldn't be completely out of the question. But it still seems very high to me.

And they did also say they're "in the process of reviewing" their ebook strategy.